Chef Christopher Kimball Shares What’s Cooking This Christmas – The Federalist

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Christopher Kimball of Milk Street joins Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech to share tips from his new book Milk Street Vegetables Cookbookand offer his advice on the best ways to prepare food for the holidays.

Cooking whats available is what people used to do until fairly recently. So instead of planning your meals ahead of time, based on looking at a recipe, if you start the other way around, the way people have for tens of thousands of years, thats really helpful because then you also become a better cook because you adapt to whatever is good, Kimball said. So sometimes its better to cook with what you have or what you can find, and for a lot of people thats the reverse, but I think thats probably the better way to do it if you want to take the time to figure it out.

When it comes to cooking for a particular occasion, Kimball said you dont always have to diverge from your normal kitchen routine.

I dont feel a great need, especially around the holidays, to actually do something different, Kimball explained. There are times when I do like to completely improvise, and once in a while, I would.

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Chef Christopher Kimball Shares What's Cooking This Christmas - The Federalist